disjunctive

English

Etymology

From Middle English disjunctief, disjunctyf, from Middle French disjunctif and Latin disjunctīvus (“placed in opposition”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktɪv/, /dɪsˈdʒʊŋktɪv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv

Adjective

Examples (grammar, regarding pronouns)
English: me, him, them Spanish: mí, ti, sí French: moi, toi

disjunctive (comparative more disjunctive, superlative most disjunctive)

2. Not connected; separated.
   • 1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA:

     That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.

4. (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
6. (grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.

   Hyponym: concessive

   Coordinate term: contrastive

   The words "but" and "or" are disjunctive conjunctions.

8. Tending to disjoin; separating.

   Antonym: conjunctive

   Coordinate term: contrastive

10. (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
    • 2005, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206:

      […] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.

12. (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
    • 1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235:

      An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.

Antonyms

• conjunctive

Derived terms

• canonical disjunctive normal form
• disjunctively
• disjunctiveness
• disjunctive normal form
• disjunctive syllogism
• disjunctivism
• disjunctivist
• disjunctivitis
• nondisjunctive

Translations

not connected, separated

Catalan: disjuntiu Finnish: erillinen (fi) French: disjonctif (fr) Hungarian: elkülönült (hu), széttagolt (hu), különvált (hu), szétvált, szétválasztott (hu) Spanish: disyuntivo (es)

grammar, of a personal pronoun: not used in immediate conjunction

Catalan: disjuntiu Finnish: disjunktiivinen (fi) French: disjonctif (fr) Hungarian: (please verify) hangsúlyos (hu) (literally “emphatic”) Ido: disjuntiva (io) Italian: disgiuntivo Portuguese: disjuntivo Spanish: disyuntivo (es)

tending to disjoin; separating

Catalan: disjuntiu Finnish: erottava (fi), eriyttävä French: disjonctif (fr) Hungarian: választó (hu), elválasztó (hu), szétválasztó (hu), diszjunktív (hu)

music: relating to disjunct tetrachords

logic: of or related to a disjunction

Finnish: disjunktiivinen (fi) French: disjonctif (fr) German: disjunktiv Hungarian: diszjunktív (hu) Ido: disjuntiva (io) Polish: alternatywny (pl) Portuguese: disjuntivo Romanian: disjunctiv (ro)

Noun

disjunctive (plural disjunctives)

1. (logic) A disjunction.
   • L. H. Atwater

     Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.

2. (grammar) A disjunct.

   Coordinate term: concessive

Translations

disjunction — see disjunction

Further reading

• Disjunctive pronoun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Logical disjunction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪs.juːŋkˈtiː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [dis.juŋkˈtiː.ve]

Adjective

disjūnctīve

1. vocative masculine singular of disjūnctīvus